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If there is an industry based on high-temperature superconductors, it's still in its infancy.

"If you're young and you want a job that involves very intriguing research in industry, you might have to create the company that allows you to do it." --George Whitesides

"I always felt that I have a deep personal connection to the ocean environment," says oceanographer Francis Smith.

Van Roon's experience at DSM has been "rewarding, because we started an entirely new group; we are learning and making progress."

The National Institute for Nanotechnology is an integrated, multidisciplinary institution involving researchers in physics, chemistry, engineering, biology, informatics, pharmacy, and medicine.

Delfyett, a professor of optics and university trustee chair at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, continues to expand his curiosity by working with lasers that could serve as the backbone of future telecommunication networks.

"We can basically go into a terrorist's apartment and confirm that he had in his possession nuclear material."

There's no excuse for submitting a grant proposal without meticulously reviewing all the information about the program, including the fine print and recent changes, and talking to the program officer.

Go abroad for some time. That is how I got into a field that I could make a significant contribution to.

In her work with Native communities, Hiza Redsteer engages with Native youth, modeling a powerful way they can contribute to their communities: by becoming scientists.

It may not be a hot new industry in which even mediocre scientists can write their own tickets, but the chemical industry is big, solid, diverse, and offers great opportunities for scientists who prepare themselves well in a marketable field and take the job search seriously.

If you make it through your first year of graduate school, you have a good chance of completing your degree.

"By creating interest and momentum through the next IPY, I can see a real resurgence in opportunities for young scientists across Canada," says David Hik, Executive Director, Canadian Secretariat, International Polar Year.

Gourdine, an African-American physicist and engineer, became an expert in electrogasdynamics and developed commercial uses for the technology.

One of the best programs in the country was at UC Berkeley, so I applied and was accepted. I was determined to make the most of this opportunity of a lifetime.

"I still need to worry about money," says Graham Smith. The difference now is that he does not have to bring in money because of profit targets but "because of my curiosity about how the universe works. That's a very different motivation."